Les histoires de Polybe : avec les fragmens ov extraits dv Mesme Avthevr, contenant la pluspart des Ambassades
A 1669 French translation of Polybius's histories, printed in Paris by Thomas Jolly and Simon Benard and later owned by John Adams, a scholarly book for readers of classical history. Its four pictures are small printed woodcut ornaments: a foliage border strip, a central cartouche of scrolls and flowers, a mask-and-acanthus head piece, and a horizontal band of scrolling vines with grotesque figures, useful to a designer as dense, period decorative ornament.
